Haute Route Alps Stage 7: Megeve to Geneva

Haute Route Alps Stage 7: Megeve to Geneva, well, to Yvoire, but that’s close enough. I started to feel better today. Finally, my stomach has started to settle down. It has been abused, not only by Hotel Tatami, but also from the amounts of food consumed in the morning, and the vast quantities of gels […]

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Haute Route Alps Stage 6: Courchevel to Megève

Haute Route Alps Stage 6: Courchevel to Megève A cold and early descent from Courchevel left me chilled to the bone. It was a 25km descent, and quite speedy at that. Not overly technical, that was until 3 women decided that taking a quick pee beside the road, pretty much naked would aid their times. […]

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Haute Route Alps Stage 5: Valloire to Courchevel

Haute Route Alps Stage 5: Valloire to Courchevel Food poisoning, not my favourite thing to have whilst riding, actually at any time. Yet here I was, stuck with continuous nausea. I’ve never wanted not to get on my bike before, but this particular day it was the last thing on my mind. I was dark. […]

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